Chocolate, Gourmet Chocolate, Chocolate LG, and more Chocolate
Did you know that 144006 of you searched for Chocolate in September? Chocolate is on my mind lately, so I got curious to see how many others were thinking about it. In creating the greatest sweet shop of all time, I think it’s important to know what people are interested in right now, (chocolate) and what they’re tastes are right now, (chocolate) and with the Internet so full of stats it makes it easy to find out (about chocolate).
If you don’t do any keyword optimization for search engines (or even know what that is, for goodness sakes) you’re probably unaware that Overture (Yahoo’s company for adding paid search) has a little tool that tells you how many times a certain terms/words were searched for on Yahoo for a close-in-proximity previous month. (If you click on that little tool link, please note it takes a LONG time to appear and do searches.)
So according to this tool, how many of you ARE looking for chocolate?
| Searches done in September 2006 | |
|---|---|
| Count | Search Term |
| 144006 | chocolate |
| 62301 | gourmet chocolate |
| 37813 | chocolate lg |
| 33919 | charlie and the chocolate factory |
| 28716 | hot chocolate |
| 26457 | chocolate phone |
| 21309 | chocolate candy |
| 18226 | chocolate chip cookie recipe |
| 16137 | chocolate fountain |
| 14731 | chocolate verizon |
| 12994 | chocolate cake |
| 12871 | chocolate cd |
| 12522 | chocolate chip cookie |
| 11797 | chocolate lab |
| 11565 | chocolate fondue fountain |
| 10068 | the chocolate war |
| 9901 | chocolate cell phone |
| 9650 | chocolate cake recipe |
| 9386 | willy wonka and the chocolate factory |
| 9308 | chocolate dessert recipe |
| 8182 | chocolate factory |
| 7112 | white chocolate |
| 7054 | chocolate lg phone |
| 6791 | chocolate phone verizon |
| 5818 | chocolate mold |
| 5782 | godiva chocolate |
| 5355 | chocolate puma |
| 5259 | chocolate bar |
| 5019 | chocolate covered strawberry |
| 4759 | chocolate fondue |
| 4736 | dark chocolate |
| 4425 | hershey chocolate |
| 4197 | chocolate gift basket |
| 4083 | chocolate truffles |
| 4052 | chocolate recipe |
| 3988 | like water for chocolate |
| 3789 | chocolate gift |
| 3609 | chocolate chip |
| 3547 | snow patrol chocolate lyric |
| 3522 | chocolate lab puppy |
| 3399 | chocolate cookie recipe |
| 3392 | ghirardelli chocolate |
| 3389 | almond chocolate cookie honey italian ricotta |
| 3277 | chocolate mousse |
| 3274 | sexual chocolate |
| 3273 | german chocolate cake recipe |
| 3253 | chocolate milk |
| 3099 | chocolate martini |
| 3082 | history of chocolate |
| 3040 | merckens chocolate |
| 2964 | german chocolate cake |
| 2935 | chocolate labrador |
| 2797 | rocky mountain chocolate factory |
| 2788 | cherub chocolate |
| 2775 | chocolate wedding favor |
| 2740 | cadbury chocolate |
| 2691 | chocolate verizon wireless |
| 2634 | chocolate fondue recipe |
| 2514 | world finest chocolate |
| 2456 | chocolate by the bald man |
| 2376 | charlie and the chocolate |
| 2352 | lindt chocolate |
| 2293 | hersheys chocolate |
| 2277 | vanilla chocolate |
| 2192 | chocolate confections create obsession savor treat |
| 2163 | belgian chocolate |
| 2155 | chocolate mousse recipe |
| 2152 | chocolate lg review |
| 2000 | chocolate cookie |
| 1997 | art chocolate confections dessert recipe simply spectacular technique |
| 1955 | dog and chocolate |
| 1939 | cell chocolate phone verizon |
| 1912 | chocolate dessert |
| 1894 | chocolate city |
| 1848 | chocolate martini recipe |
| 1839 | chocolate no bake cookie |
| 1835 | ny chocolate model |
| 1811 | chocolate coin |
| 1797 | true history of chocolate |
| 1776 | better than chocolate |
| 1747 | charlie and the chocolate factory poster |
| 1741 | oatmeal chocolate chip cookie |
| 1728 | chocolate strawberry |
| 1723 | chocolate covered pretzels |
| 1692 | box of chocolate |
| 1678 | death by chocolate |
| 1660 | sabes a chocolate |
| 1652 | chocolate boob |
| 1583 | nestle chocolate |
| 1570 | chocolate pie |
| 1549 | como agua para chocolate |
| 1548 | cell chocolate new phone verizon |
| 1543 | chocolate star fish |
| 1539 | by chocolate dessert herme pierre |
| 1524 | accessory chocolate lg |
| 1519 | chocolate covered strawberry recipe |
| 1500 | chocolate skateboard |
Searches for Chocolate over the Past 3 Years
There’s also a nifty little tool put out by Google that tells you about search trends. The tool displays a graph showing the trends over the last 3 years of how many people have been searching for a particular subject, and then reflects the high points in the graph with major news articles that could respond to those spikes (or cause them - such as “spinach” was recently searched a lot because of the ecoli scare). Down below the graph, it tells you who’s doing the most searches on those subjects (by cities, regions or languages). (Round the page down to just one country using the pull-down in the upper right hand portion of the page)
So who else is looking for chocolate?
Top 10 Cities Searching for Chocolate
1. Auckland, New Zealand
2. Melbourne, Australia
3. New York, NY, USA
4. San Francisco, CA, USA
5. Portland, OR, USA
6. Denver, CO, USA
7. Philadelphia, PA, USA
8. Chicago, IL, USA
9. Seattle, WA, USA
10. Boston, MA, USA
I also noticed an interesting trend of chocolate peaks in mid-summer as well as around the holidays. So, did you find my page because YOU’RE thinking about chocolate? Just as a side note, you can enter multiple terms into Google Trends and compare them over time. For example Chocolate and Candy - it’s interesting how many of the spikes in the search numbers overtime are similar.